Note: Any BOLD shows were cancelled in 2000 season; Beverly Hills 90210 was
cancelled in the tenth season.

Anniversary:

Baywatch celebrated ten years in syndication; their eleventh season was their last.

Dateline NBC celebrated ten years on NBC.

Talk Soup celebrated ten years on E!

Entertainment Tonight celebrated twenty years in syndication.

Late Night celebrated twenty years on NBC.

Biggest New Hit: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was #13 on Thursdays. Really, CSI really premiered on a deadly Friday
night. CBS made a wise move and put it on Thursdays in February 2001. With Survivor & CSI, it was the beginning of the
end of NBC’s stranglehold on Thursday nights.

British Ties:

Dot Comedy was based on a British series.

First Years was based on the BBC series, This Life.

Trading Spaces was based on the BBC series, Changing Rooms. Ty Pennington was one of the carpenters on Trading Spaces.
Ty got his own show, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, in 2004 on ABC.

"The Queen Of Mean" Anne Robinson hosted the British version and the USA version, The Weakest Link. This was one of the
most brutal game shows ever. Don't me wrong. It was only play for laughs.

Death: Michael Cuccione died from complications stemming from Hodgkin's disease on January 13, 2001 in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada. He turned sixteen on January 5, 1985. He was one of the stars of the parody band, 2Gether.

Movies 2 TV: Some Of My Best Friends was based on the 1997 Nick Scotti movie, Kiss Me Guido.

Name Change: Cursed to The Weber Show in December 2000.

Netherlands Ties:

Big Brother was based on Big Brother; it all begun in September 1999 and became a worldwide sensation. MTV’s The
Real World influenced Big Brother.

Chains Of Love was based Chains Of Love. The same people of Big Brother and Blind Date produced it.

Reruns: UPN showed Celebrity Death Match reruns for two months in 2001.

The Return:

The Fugitive returned to TV after a thirty–three years absence in this updated version.

Primetime Live returned as Primetime Thursday after 20/20 went back to one night on Fridays. Thou, 20/20 Downtown continued
as a separated series.

Lorenzo Lamas returned to TV in a failed weekly series, The Immortal, after a one-year absence. He was previously on another
failed series, Air America.

America's Funniest Home Video returned to ABC with a new host, Tom Bergeron, after a year absence. The last hosts were
Daisy Fuentes and John Fugelsang from 1998–1999.

Survivor: The Australia Outback is the first reality series to be #1; it was the second edition of Survivor. It took America
by storm last summer – the #1 show to watch; no one could switch the channel. The gay naked guy, Richard Hatch’s
prediction was right on the money; in the first episode, he told the TV audience that he "already had the million dollar check
written in his name." In the last episode of the summer, Susan Hawk’s unforgettable powerful speech to Kelly Wiglesworth
and Richard set the tone for the series. Let the backstabbing and the fighting begin! Survivor brought the reality craze to
a nationwide audience in primetime. We haven’t seen anything like Survivor on TV before.

Mark Singer, the original Beastmaster, joined The Beastmaster in the last season.

Tony Danza joined CBS' Family Law.

Steve Martin was one of the eight executive producers on Downer Channel.

James Cameron, best known for Titanic and The Terminator, was the creator of Dark Angel, his first series.

Live Through This was MTV's first drama series.

Tracee Ellis Ross is the daughter of the famous singer, Diana Ross. Tracee is on UPN's Girlfriends

Kevin Dillon is the brother of the famous actor, Matt Dillion. Kevin is on CBS' That's Life. This was his first series.

Steven Weber and Timothy Daly starred in separated failed series, Cursed and The Fugitive, this season. They both starred
in the hit NBC series, Wings, in the 1990's. They need a one-way ticket back to Nantucket. They had a very successful flight
there.

NBC's Monday night lineup failed badly. The returning show, Daddio, and the two newcomers, Tucker and Deadline, premiered
on October 2, 2000. Daddio and Tucker were cancelled four weeks later. Deadline was cancelled the following week.

Whoopie Goldberg created Strong Medicine for Lifetime.

Go Fish was Kieran Culkin's first series. You guessed it! He is Macaulay's brother. He got his start in Mac's big hit movie,
Home Alone. He played Kevin's cousin in the movie.

Friday Night was cancelled on December 29, 2000. Late Friday replaced Friday Night a week later.

Darren Star, the creator of Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place, was the creator of Grosse Pointe and The $treet. Both
failed shows premiered this season.

Dick Wolf was the producer of the syndicated Arrest & Trial. He was the creator of the long–running police drama,
Law & Order.

Roger Roeper joined Ebert & Roeper as Roger Ebert's new co-host. He worked at the same newspaper, Chicago Sun–Times,
as Roger Ebert since 1987. Roger started in 1967.

Mysterious Ways premiered on NBC in the summer of 2000, then it went to PAX in the fall.

The Secret Adventures Of Jules Verne originally aired on CBC in Canada in 2000. Sci Fi picked it up in January 2001 and
it went straight to syndication the following October. The series only lasted a season.

The Source: All Access – 2000–2002, syndication, music magazine, LisaRaye

Starhunter – syndication, sci fi, Michael Pare

Street Smarts – 2000–2005, syndication, quiz, Frank Nicotero

Late Night

Late Friday – January 2001–2002, NBC, comedy variety

Reality TV

Starting with the 2000 season, I won’t put some reality shows in the seasons, such as The Mole, Survivor, The Apprentice,
The Bachelor & Temptation Island. Most reality shows goes by editions. Some of them show two editions a season.

For example: Survivor shown one edition this season – Survivor: The Australian Outback in February 2001. The 2002
season, there was two editions – Survivor: Africa in October 2002 and Survivor: Marquesas in February 2003.The editions
will have their dates of the season.

Yes, I will put American Idol in the seasons; FOX only shows it once a year. Reality shows like Fear Factor, Extreme Makeover:
Home Edition, Nanny 911, Queer Eye, Trading Spouses will be added to the seasons. Those shows have individual episodes.